Add MS 31954

"EXTRACTS of the state-papers and letters of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State" to Charles I. and Charles II.:-

1. "Memoirs of the life of Sir Edward Nicholas....written by himself and transcribed from the original MS." f. 2.

2. "Extracts from letters of Sir Edw. Nicholas during, his residence on the Continent; 1 Oct. N. S. 1648-2/12 Oct. 1658. f. 6.

3. Rough catalogue, with occasional extracts, of "the bundles of letters to and from Sir Edw. Nicholas"; 1641-1669. f. 147.

4. "Extracts from a MS. of Sir Edw. Nicholas concerning an History of the Long Parliament." f. 181. A note on f. 1 states that the extracts were taken "from the originals lately in the possession of his grandson, William Nicholas, Esq., and now in that of Sir John Evelyn, Bart." A large proportion of the original letters referred to tinder art. 3 are included among the Nicholas Papers, Egerton MSS. 2533-2562. A few marginal notes by Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, are interspersed. The volume is a transcript from Add. MS. 4180, which is in the hand of Dr. Thomas Birch. Paper; ff. 188. XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto.

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke: Notes on papers of Sir E. Nicholas: 18th cent.

Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State: Extracts from his state papers and letters 1641-1669;: 18th cent.

England General Chronicles and History: Extracts from the state papers and letters of Sir E. Nicholas: 1641-1669; 18th cent.

includes:

• f. 2 Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State: Memoirs of his life: 18th cent.
• f. 181 England; Parliament: Extracts from a MS. of Sir E. Nicholas, on the Long Parliament: 18th cent.
• f. 181 Charles I of England: Extracts from Sir E. Nicholas's History of the Long Parliament: 18th cent.